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Three stories of people trapped to their routines repressing a deep desire to free themselves from these realities, even if in peculiar ways.
Three stories of people trapped to their routines repressing a deep desire to free themselves from these realities, even if in peculiar ways.
Kelvin Marum Machado
O Homem Morcego
Chico Meirelles
O Padre
Maria Luísa Monteiro
A Estudante
Alexandre Severo Masotti
Chefe
Cândida Canielas
Assistente da Igreja
Milena Vaz
Colega de Trabalho #1
Mario Celso
Colega de Trabalho #2
Guilherme Carvalho da Rosa
Vendedor de Balões
Clara Herzog da Rosa
Criança
Three stories of people trapped to their routines repressing a deep desire to free themselves from these realities, even if in peculiar ways.
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
In rural Northern Ireland, following the untimely death of their mother, a young man with Down syndrome and his estranged brother discover her unfulfilled bucket list.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.